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by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Journey to No FEAR: 9/11
21 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo The final stage of the battle to pass the No FEAR Act, designed to protect those who blow the whistle on discrimination in the federal civil service, was overshadowed by the events of 9/11/01. Yet it was a near-miraculous victory, drawing together…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Hillary Clinton's Neo-McCarthyism and the Real Father of "Extreme Nationalism"
21 Sep 2016
by Danny Haiphong The Democrats have made Vladimir Putin “the primary boogeyman of Clinton's campaign,” insanely blaming Russia for Donald Trump’s white nationalism. The historical reality is that the U.S. “birthed the most extreme nationalism the world has ever known when its founding rulers…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Anti-Putin Hysteria in Service to Hillary
21 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Vladimir Putin is being used to normalize imperialism and to get Hillary in the Oval Office.” The pro-Clinton corporate media are fully complicit in the farce, acting as megaphones of a new McCarthyism. “Joy Ann Reid at MSNBC is so eager to…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Was it Mutiny? U.S. Rulers Split Over Syria
22 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The American bombing of Syrian soldiers was no “mistake” – it was a mutiny by the War Party in the U.S. military and government, who want victory for the jihadists. “The war hawks have never forgiven Obama or ceased denouncing his failure to ‘finish off’ Assad” in…
The Real News Network
Obama Attempts to Transfer Blackness to Hillary
21 Sep 2016
C.W. Jegna
Why Progressives Must Leave The Democratic Party
28 Sep 2016
by C.W. Jegna Hillary Clinton and her party are bad medicine, dispensed in incrementally fatal doses. The Democratic-leaning public seeks a cure for what ills society, but gets poison, instead. “No sane progressive should associate themselves with a political party that often and dramatically…
Chandre Gould
South Africa Study: Why Societies Must Protect Children if They Want Fewer Criminals
28 Sep 2016
by Chandre Gould The author studied the lives of South African men that had been jailed for violent crimes – and discovered the abused and forsaken child at the core of each of them. “Preventing and reducing stubbornly high levels of violence in South Africa can only be achieved if the country…
Thomas C. Mountain
The UN’s Next Genocide in Somalia
28 Sep 2016
by Thomas C. Mountain The United Nations, acting as a foreign policy arm of the U.S., allowed a quarter million Somali children to starve to death in 2011. Another drought, and continued occupation and war, now endangers the lives of hundreds thousands more kids. “The UN is responsible for feeding…
Zaid Jilani and Naomi LaChance
Students are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America – and Being Threatened for It
28 Sep 2016
by Zaid Jilani and Naomi LaChance It’s been 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that nobody can be compelled to salute or otherwise honor the flag, but students across the country report retaliation for “pulling a Kaepernick” at school events. In parochial schools, constitutional…
Frank X Murphy
21st Century Detroit-style Power and Struggle: The Detroit Literacy Case
28 Sep 2016
by Frank X Murphy The corporate project to destroy of local democracy has reached its zenith in Detroit, the nation’s Black metropolis. Neoliberal dogma holds that “Detroiters can’t do anything, don’t know anything, and our communities should be disregarded when ‘reviving,’ ‘restructuring’ and even…